Anne Varty is a Professor in the English Department at Royal Holloway, University of London. She specialises in poetry by women since WW1, theatre since the Victorian era, and Oscar Wilde. She has edited two collections of essays about Liz Lochhead, most recently The Edinburgh Companion to Liz Lochhead (Edinburgh University Press, 2013).

• IntroductionWomen, Poetry, and the Voice of a NationThe Laureate Roles: Three Poets and a ProfessorGillian Clarke. From Woman Poet to National PoetPaula Meehan: Poetry Across BoundariesLiz Lochhead. Performing ScotlandCarol Ann Duffy. The Edge has become the CentreAnswering Back. Poetry in Conversation with Wordsworth, Burns and YeatsNational Poets and the National CurriculumBrexit and BritanniaPostscript for the FutureWorks Cited

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